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Updated On: 15 February, 2010 07:20 AM IST | | Soumya Mukerji
Sexologist Prakash Kothari has converted his private erotica collection into a book-museum of sorts. Here's a titillating trip through it, lock, c*ck and barrel
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Sexologist Prakash Kothari has converted his private erotica collection into a book-museum of sorts. Here's a titillating trip through it, lock, c*ck and barrel
The title is predictable. So is some of the Kamasutra in it. But the rest of the art that fills popular sexologist Prakash Kothari's pages is a good mind-blow job.
Angels in self-fellatio (carved in wood in a sculpture that dates back to 18th century Tamil Nadu), divine desire manifesting itself in Ganesha as he penetrates with his trunk (Tamil Nadu, 16th century), unrestrained, same-sex embraces and a woman pleasuring herself as her pet tongue-strokes her vagina (Bikaner, 19th century) are only some of the inclusions that make you realise what pleasure really meant in times the ignorant thought were unadventurous and chaste.
When this writer saw it on her table a sensuous red cover with "Erotica" embossed in gold she was slightly amused by the author's handwritten note inside. It ended with "with affection" a phrase we thought was thankfully dead and gone.
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A nude by Vrindavan Solanki |
But then he couldn't have signed off with a "with love", for the title's tagline reads "the art of loving". Clearing untoward confusions. But the qualifier should've read "the art of making and staking love" instead, for the ideas you get here are outrageous enough to drive your partner away for good.
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Would you, for instance, have your lover stand on her head while you stand upright during intercourse (wood sculpture, Tamil Nadu, 18th century)? But again, who minds fanciful fantasies when it comes to basic instincts, so what if you can't do even half of that, lest your lover thinks you've lost it for good.
One fascinating feature is that the author has managed to lay his hands on timeless, previously unseen artefacts that not only bring out the aesthetics of coiton, but also enlighten you about quaint culture that shaped it as it evolved through the centuries. Consider, for instance, the Nigerian ivory statuette (19th century) that was used in tribal initiation ceremonies to rupture virgins' hymens in preparation for the wedding night.
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